These kids both LOVE their sisters. They find Sarah Jane and Anna totally fascinating. They are less interested in each other. Roby likes to steal Eli's toys. Eli has been known to hit in retaliation. Eli has also pulled Roby's hair, difficult to do, not very much of it. They are very proud of all their new tricks and like to show off. Particularly standing. They put everything (toys, books, fingers, my jewelry,etc.,) in their mouths and chew, hard. They LOVE chewing on wires and have a sixth sense for finding outlets. We think they are pretty easy to tell apart but others are not so convinced. The red paint is wearing off Roby's toes and I don't think I'm going to repaint this time. Grandma and Zeke may lobby me to do otherwise. They are wearing 12-18 month clothing, primarily hand-me-downs from Cousin Blake and friend Drew Chun. Thank goodness for hand-me-downs! Roby has finally stopped his banshee yell. Eli loves to be picked up and held, Roby is more content to sit and play.
Here are the boys playing in our room while we get ready in the morning. Mornings used to be relatively easy. I didn't know that at the time. Things are different now. These guys are trouble.
Trying again.
For posterity, a day in their lives looks like this:
5:15-6:15 - One or both of them wakes up and is fed in bed with me. When finished with the first one, he is deposited back in his crib and the other one is fed. That generally leads to the first one being fairly unhappy. These guys do not like to hang out on their own while everyone else parties in mom and dad's room.
6:15-8:00 - The boys entertain themselves or are entertained by their ever loving sisters on the floor of our room while we get ready to work. This used to be easy. Now that they can crawl this involves them both throwing themselves at the two stairs in our room, crawling to the top, rolling/falling down them, crying, and then starting again. We have finally gotten smart and block the stairs off with pillows. We are a bit slow on the take. They are now trying to conquer the shower.
8:00-9:00 - Vicky and Elizabeth arrive, the boys are buckled into their seats and fed cheerios, cut up blueberries, eggs, french toast, and/or oatmeal. They go through a lot of food in the morning. Most ends up on the floor.
9:00-2:00 - They have a bottle (pumped) and go down for a nap. Vicky leaves when Elizabeth gets back from driving the girls to school. Their nap is highly variable as far as I can tell. Elizabeth takes them out to the park, they have lunch and their noon bottle (pumped/formula) while out and about and then return to the house in the afternoon to meet their sisters who are delivered from school by Grandma or Zeke.
2:00-6:00 - They have another bottle (formula) and go down for their afternoon nap around 3. Again, highly variable and definitely not coordinated. Some one's always cooperative, some one's always not. They like to keep us guessing. At 4 everyone heads out the door. If the boys are awake, they go with the girls, either to the park or to Studio Grow. If not, they hang out at home with Vicky while the girls hit the town. They have their dinner around 5, either at home or at the park.
6:00-7:00 - Everyone arrives home and has family dinner with mom. That usually consists of mom racing home from work to cook something which then elicits squeals of disappointment and is thoroughly rejected by everyone at the table. Not that I'm bitter. At 6:45 the boys (Roby only, Eli has quit) nurse briefly and are then changed into jammies and sleep sacks and head up to bed with their final bottle (formula.) They usually go to sleep very cooperatively. Occasionally we have some protests. For the most part they stay asleep till the next morning, teeth, colds and noise from their sisters are known to cause exceptions.
